LLMs for High-Frequency Decision-Making: Normalized Action Reward-Guided Consistency Policy Optimization

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Authors: Yang Zhao, Zihao Li, Zhiyu Jiang, Dandan Ma, Ganchao Liu, Wenzhe Zhao
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Abstract

While Large Language Models (LLMs) form the cornerstone of sequential decision-making agent development, they have inherent limitations in high-frequency decision tasks. Existing research mainly focuses on discrete embodied decision scenarios with low-frequency and significant semantic differences in state space (e.g., household planning). These methods suffer from limited performance in high-frequency decision-making tasks, since high-precision numerical state information in such tasks undergoes frequent updates with minimal fluctuations, and exhibiting policy misalignment between the learned sub-tasks and composite tasks. To address these issues, this paper proposes Normalized Action Reward guided Consistency Policy Optimization (NAR-CP). 1) Our method first acquires predefined dense rewards from environmental feedback of candidate actions via reward functions, then completes reward shaping through normalization, and theoretically verifies action reward normalization does not impair optimal policy. 2) To reduce policy misalignment in composite tasks, we use LLMs to infer sub-observation candidate actions and generate joint policies, with consistency loss ensuring precise alignment between global semantic policies and sub-semantic policies. Experiments on UAV pursuit, a typical high-frequency task, show our method delivers superior performance on independent and composite tasks with excellent generalization to unseen tasks.

Fields of Study & Subjects

Reinforcement Learning in Robotics AI-based Problem Solving and Planning Adaptive Dynamic Programming Control

Publication details

Journal / source
arXiv (Cornell University)
Publication date
3 March 2026
Language
EN
Document type
Preprint